Things people do that annoy you
 

This is an offshoot of 'words that annoy you' thread. I read through that thread and laughed at most of it. I get bothered by some of the same things so I didn't respond. What bothers me had already been mentioned.

In this thread we're not going to discuss what folks say that bother you, but more about what people do that bother you.

Question: What are some of the things that people do that make you mad or annoy you?

Impatient people get under my skin. People who rush other people because they planned their day wrong or didn't utilize their time right. But then make it my fault.

People who are more than 5 minutes late without a good reason. Punctuality is, imo, one of the most important personality traits a person can have.

Obviously, this does not apply to different cultures where the norms are different.

People who bring outside food into the movie theater, like McDonalds, Burger King, etc.

People who talk in the movie theater while the movie is in session.

People who bring babies into the movie theater. That's really, really annoying.

People who text or use their cell phone while driving or in the movie theater.

Just for you - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L3eeC2lJZs

I love Alamo Drafthouse SO MUCH.

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Thanks for that YT. Just listening to the kind of foul language she uses shows how stupid and ignorant she is. It's ignorant people like her that cause issues in the theater.

THIS. Lateness is a sign of disrespect.

People smacking gum, screaming children (in public), and people sucking their teeth really annoy me. In general loud, obnoxious people annoy me.

People who can't drive worth a damn. i.e. Michigan drivers.
People who are/act ghetto as hell.
Womanizing, irresponsible men. Young men/boys who wear their pants sagging; provocatively dressed women etc. Lazy people. That's pretty much it.

[QUOTE=PrettyBoy;2106542]People who can't drive worth a damn. i.e. Michigan drivers.

Haha, I am from NW Ohio, we always would say that the idiot drivers must have learned how to drive in Michigan. Michigan drivers probably say the same regarding Ohio drivers.

Can't stand people eating with their mouths open. Or talking with their mouths full of food. And then there are those who, even if they eat with their mouths closed, it's like they have microphones in their cheeks, they make so much noise eating.

OK, one more-those who can't use their utensils properly, like someone fisting their spoon, and they are not a toddler. Which reminds me- Jeffrey Steingarten on Iron Chef makes me nuts sometimes-fists his spoon, slurps, talks with his mouth full of food, and has even drooled as he was talking. Ick.

Let's just say my kids learned table manners at an early age. They are now afflicted with the same table issues, poor girls.

I'm late for everything :o

Well, ok.. I wouldn't say EVERYTHING.. I'm on time for work, interviews, important meetings, etc. Or.. if I'm meeting only one friend, I try to make sure I'm a few minutes early. However, if I'm meeting a bunch of people in an informal setting, I'm pretty much always late. I find myself rushing around more than I'd like, even in those situations when I'm on time. I think that has to do with not planning for anything in my life :p I just wing it.
Speaking of this... I can't stand when people bring full meals onto a plane. Well, I take that back.. it's ok, but not when it's some strong-smelling food that EVERYONE around clearly can't stand to deal with in a closed, confined space.

I've brought subs onto a plane before (I've traveled so much for work that there are definitely those times when you don't have time to stop and eat, so I understand).. However, I'll get something like turkey with lettuce and tomato... never strong-smelling meats, onions, strange spreads or strong cheeses.

Some people clearly don't think the way I do.

And speaking of planes... I hate when everyone stands up all at once the second the plane lands. Chill out. Take a seat. You're not going anywhere for a few minutes.

I'm going to throw Connecticut drivers in here. They're the WORST! There are actually signs on the highways pointing out that the left lane is for passing, but apparently no one reads them. A person will drive at 50 mph in that lane, with a huge line of cars behind them, and they'll never move over. Drives me CRAZY.

If you want to move quickly in CT, stay to the right.. and be prepared to weave in and out of traffic.

People who walk at the pace of a turtle when you have places to go, especially when you're in a hurry.

People who randomly stop in the middle of a hallway/street/path when you are in a hurry to get somewhere.

People who can't drive.

People who can't take a joke (ie: are serious 24/7).

People who brag about how sh*tfaced/wasted they got last night (Ya, big deal. I had 4 beers last night and you don't hear me telling everyone and trying to act cool).

People that say the word "like" 27 times in a single sentence.

People who hold up the line and take 5 minutes to decide what they want to eat in the cafeteria/food place on campus.

I lived in Ohio for a few years, and they drive much better in Ohio than they do here. If I ever heard anyone from Michigan talking about Ohio drivers I'd laugh. Michigan drivers can't afford to talk about driving at all because they are by far the worst drivers ever. Doing 30 in a 50 mph zone. That makes me so mad. And this is every day, about 4 to 5 times a day. I'm not exaggerating, it really is. I'm generally a very patient, calm person but the way they drive here gets me, and it gets me very upset. I get upset because there's nothing I can do about it. I have no driving patience for these folks here. I'm getting mad posting about it.

Live in Michigan for a month and you'll want to move back to CT. They drive slow every day and all over, not just in the passing lane. And then when they merge into traffic, getting on the freeway, they do about 40 mph going onto the freeway while most folks (on the freeway) are doing about 60... still 10 mph below the speed limit. If Toyota had a tech center in MN. I'd move back home. It's that bad, and it's so frustrating. I'm really getting tired of this broke, non-driving state. I really am.

LOL.

I want all of you driving folks to come to Texas.

THIS. Ditto on people who are drivng 10mph slower than everyone else and have the nerve to be in the fast lane.

People who are talking on their cell phone while driving. People who put others down to feel significant.

I've been to Michigan and actually didn't find it to be that bad. But a week probably isn't long enough to get the full experience.

And I actually haven't lived in CT, but in the year and a half since I moved to NJ, I've driven through it a lot, as I visit friends and family in RI/MA/NH all the time.

The amazing thing about CT is that traffic will be at nearly a dead stop, then 5 minutes later you'll be doing 70, then you'll be back down to 10 mph a few minutes after that. In that time, the number of lanes doesn't change, and there are no busy exits getting on or off the highway. This will go on for miles and miles.. Speed up, slow down. Speed up, slow down. In CT, there is random traffic for seemingly no reason.

I'm convinced it's because no one drives in the lane they SHOULD be driving in.. Ever.

Driving in TX actually isn't that bad.. But yes, the drivers can be a little crazy. And it can be a little intimidating when there's a giant truck (everything's bigger in Texas!) flying up behind you, weaving in and out of lanes. However, at least they drive fast there.. From what I've seen, anyway.

My current list of annoyances is vast and may not be fully appreciated by the rest of you.
1 - and this is a biggy - I hate when people won't give you bad news. How this applies in my every day life is there are cultures represented here in Dubai who would personally rather be thrown into a pit of rattlesnakes as opposed to giving you bad news of any kind. That bad news might be no, they don't know where the milk is in the grocery store, or you have cancer. A friend of mine dealt with this. They had to move back to England to be given a valid diagnosis when based on what the doctor was actually saying, he probably knew and just couldn't spit it out. Seriously. Obviously the first example comes up more frequently, and this is how it works.
me: Can you tell me what ink cartridges this printer requires?
store clerk: Let me get someone who works in printers. (and then walks away, clearly not seeking out anyone to assist me).
me: Can I have this dish without ghee?
waiter: Yes ma'am (dish comes drowning in ghee)

2-things being almost, but not quite awesome. My husband and I call it 90%. Everything in Dubai is 90% awesome, but the 10% they miss on makes it completely frustrating. Example: Dubai is a car culture. There is a good metro and bus system but in general you have to drive to get to most places, and everyone has at least one car. The apartment buildings all have parking garages and that's awesome. But there is virtually no street parking and NO visitor parking in any buildings. There's a hotel next door to our building. It's a great hotel, nice restaurants, couple night clubs, taxis always at the ready. And no valet and about 20 parking spaces. And again, no street parking ANYWHERE in this neighborhood. I keep thinking my building should rent them parking spaces in our building for valet (they actually provided ABUNDANT parking in the underground garages that are unused) but that would bring it up to 100% and we can't have that.

OK, that's enough of my "what's annoying me about Dubai today" rant.

Grrrrr YES. MommyCG is the WORST at this. My examples are a little more extreme than yours. She knows that I generally do not handle it well when someone dies. Her solution? She pretends everything with that person is fine until either she thinks I can handle the news or she's backed into a corner. Some examples:

1. My guinea pig died while I was away at college. She didn't tell me for a month until I had to come home for a funeral and she had no choice.
2. My grandmother was sick and Mom swore she would tell me when it looked like she was going and it was time to come home. I wanted to have time to see her one last time and to say goodbye. Turns out, my grandmother was already dead at the time of that conversation, she just didn't want to tell me.

She did this again with my grandfather's death. I didn't tell her how pissed I was because her father had just died, but we did have a VERY long talk about how it feels to be constantly set up to believe one thing then be blindsided with the worst. :mad:

On the flipside, people need to stop using technology to spread bad news. I posted a couple weeks ago that I had 4 deaths in 5 days--I found out about 3 of the 4 on Facebook. That was a really sucky way to start November.

i don't like that people watch reality TV (or create it, for that matter.) it makes people value stupid shit. particularly drama, the superficial and the material.

Sounds like old people. The Rust Belt is jam-packed with them. Everyone else left, which makes the ratio of old people much higher in these states.

Old people, in addition to driving really slow, they do this thing where they start driving even slower...like from 20 to 10...and then they come to a complete stop...and then they turn. With no turn signal the entire time! THAT drives me crazy.

I'm guilty of passing people on a double yellow line in more rural areas. That's bad, but sometimes I'm just not in the mood for Grandma to drive 20 miles per hour in a 55 zone!

Others...

People who still write out checks in stores

People who hold up the line in a convenience store to play 99 lottery #s

I know parents will dislike, but when school buses have to stop every 5 feet? No wonder kids are obese, they can't walk from one house to the next?

When people on bikes think you should move out of the way for them. I work out too, but I actually get the f--- out of the way when several tons of metal is coming towards me, or else I wouldn't be alive to type this sentence.

When I mention something random in conversation and it sets someone off on a 20 minute unanticipated and unwelcome political spiel. No one asked what you thought of the President or the war in Iraq, or the price of gas. No one cares.

People at work who do distracting things- the short list includes constant alarms from texts, the radio, personal phone calls, jumping up and running outside to answer personal cell phone calls...it's called WORK for a reason...

Thank you! In elementary school, everyone in my neighborhood would walk to the same bus stop in one central location, and we'd actually get down there an hour early so we could play football/kickball/capture the flag/etc. before school.

Now, it seems like kids just have to sit in their house until the bus pulls up to their front door. I understand this makes sense in some places where the population isn't dense, but in most cases, it's ridiculous.

Especially when they just stand there while the cashier rings up all 67 of their items, and then act as though it's a surprise that they need to pay. We get to wait even longer while they fish around for the wallet or checkbook that they could have gotten out and had ready while the cashier was scanning things.

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I am laughing so hard at what's in bold. Hilarious! Yep, I hear ya. But my biggest issue with people bringing food into the movies is the noise it makes when they're opening the bag etc. It's just that when they start eating it, I can hear it, and that really bugs me. I just think it's really tacky.

Not to double post, but I forgot the declined credit/debit card one. I get impatient when I'm standing in line and there's someone in front of me pulling out a million credit/debit cards and each one keeps declining. I'm like, seriously? And then they go "Hm, that's weird, I know the money is in there." That's annoying because they're holding the line up and people have places they have to be.

Going along with the previous driving ports...it drives me crazy when people don't use their turning signals!! For me, I need to know the intentions of the drivers around me! I hate when drivers slow down to turn, don't use their signals, and turn...cause the entire time I'm thinking "what the hell are you slowing down for!"

Drivers here in Atlanta think that if they use their turning signal, that's giving them permission to get right infront of you and cut you off or make you slam on your brakes. That really pisses me off too!

My parents did this too- my childhood cat died my sophomore year in college, and every time I asked about her they'd say "she's doing fine".

My rant list:

1. People who smoke. Period.

2. People who lie about smoking. Yes I can smell it, no it isn't a little giggle-worthy lie. That means you, parents. After dealing with smoking parents all my life, I'm at the point where I don't let my parents in my house if I can smell smoke on them.

3. People who use a lot of fragrance, perfume, or lotion in a small confined place. Some people are allergic or highly sensitive to fragrance. I know your skin is dry on the plane, but I can't get away from your Bath & Body Works flavor of the day.

Okay, those are all about smells of some sort... yes, I fall in the highly sensitive/bordering on allergic category. But the biggest frustration is this:
4. People who don't respect other people's time, don't realize how their actions impact others, or otherwise don't realize that the world does not in fact revolve solely around them.

At work there are a few people, one in particular, who constantly reschedule meetings due to "scheduling conflicts". Those conflicts are THEIR conflicts, not the attendees... and THEY set up the meetings. Manage your own schedule and your own time, and stop impacting ours. There are days that I would have worked from home (which I do very rarely) and come in for say 3 meetings- and then surprise! All three of those meetings are cancelled. Color me mad.

[Warning: rant ahead] Outside of work, I'm serving on a guidance committee for someone working toward a fairly high honor within that organization. There are supposed to be 5 meetings with a very specific agenda at each.
Meeting 1: Scheduled during the weekday lunch hour (we all work at different companies in different cities). He decided to change it to an evening time a few days before the meeting. However, he gave such little notice (and never asked whether the day worked either time) that only half of us were able to attend. And then he went through the agenda for meeting 2 instead of meeting 1. Considering meeting 2 is supposed to build off of meeting 1, that's not okay.
Meeting 2: Scheduled for a day that was agreeable to those at the first meeting, with the provision that he'd send out what he was supposed to do in meeting 1. I emailed him early in the day of meeting 2 to ask if he was still planning to send it out and let him know I would be there. He emailed everyone about 4 hours before the meeting to say that he wasn't ready and it was postponed by a week (to tomorrow night). Two of us responded to say that the rescheduled day doesn't work. He rescheduled it to a day earlier (tonight) and finally sent out the information necessary. I'm still not attending because I'm flying out of the country tomorrow, have a lot to do, and I was ready to meet LAST week.

For someone going for a very high honor, this kind of behavior really bothers me. He's very nice, very competent (in other things), and is trying to do a very good thing. But if you can't realize how your actions impact everyone else... It really bothers me- as you can tell!

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I hate reality tv, it's so dumb (to me), and I think that there's entirely too much of it on tv. Thank God for cable.

What's in bold is freaking hilarious!

Oh forget it. Don't want to "offend" anyone who wants to imply that I'm more interested in speeding than I am the safety of children.

FYI - I just went through the process for getting a bus stop moved. At least in Texas, there are very precise requirements for getting bus service at all. Many districts are cutting bus service because of budget cuts. In our case, bus service is provided because our neighborhood has no sidewalks. I asked for my 8 year old son's stop to be moved not because of the distance, but because it required him to cross two streets, including one VERY busy one near the high school - those kids go flying down the street on a regular basis. His age and the streets he was required to cross lead the district to approve the new bus stop. He is the most important thing in the universe to me, and I'm happy he can walk home from the bus stop without risking being run over by some high schooler who is busy busting the speed limit and texting. (Had one driver run into the lamp post across from my house because she dropped her phone and decided to bend down and hunt for it while going 35 mph.)

What bugs me? People who think their time is more valuable than public safety. Coming to a complete stop at the stop sign won't take more than 20 extra seconds - a small price to pay to avoid running over someone. A very promising actor who went to school with me died because he tried to beat the train. It's not worth the risk.

I actually really like when people write out checks in stores.

There are people out there who 1) don't like to carry lots of cash, and 2) have had bad experiences with or don't believe in credit cards. If writing checks is what they need to do to keep organized and independent - particularly older people - more power to them.

If more cities would be progressive and create bike lanes, bikes on the road wouldn't be a problem. We have them here, and it makes a WORLD of difference. If a place is too behind the times to see this is something they should do, don't blame the bikers. They're just trying to be green, stay fit and save money.

People who take their shoes off at work. I have to share my office, so I'm kinda sensitive about this. It's not my problem your shoes aren't comfortable. I don't want to smell your corn chip stank. Put your shoes on.

self-righteous people who always bring up controversial topics, like politics or religion

LOL. My problem on planes, again, is that the space is so confined. One time (I'll never forget it), I had a guy bring onto the plane what was quite possibly the most disgusting smelling sandwich, and it was 9:00 in the morning. At that time, if I'm hungry at all, I want eggs, fruit, cereal.. something light. The last thing I want to smell is whatever the hell this guy was shoving into his face.. and yes, he slurped, and chewed with his mouth open while he ate. I was seriously almost sick. I could tell that the woman next to me wasn't thrilled, either.

Again, I can definitely understand in some situations. But at times, it's crazy to have that many bus stops. Even my bus stop was eventually split into two (and one was literally about 50 feet from the other) because the school district thought that there were too many kids at one bus stop. Stupid.

I don't mind if people write checks, but be considerate! If you know you need to write a check, fill in the date, sign your name, and make it out to the relevant person/place while the cashier is ringing up your items.. or at least seem concerned that you're wasting other people's time. Many people could care less. THAT's what bugs me.

iGuffawed. :o

BTW I take off my shoes all the time, but only when they don't stink. If they are those older shoes that have had water splashed on them a time or two, I have enough decency to spare the greater populace.

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This is too funny. Just the mental image of the whole thing is making me laugh. Well, I honestly believe in the old saying "you are what you eat". So if he's consistently putting food that smells like that inside of his body, then he probably smells like that, too lol.

I've smelled food through some peoples pores before. It's usually people from other cultures/countries who eat a lot of the same foods. My grandparents are Italian (both born and raised in Toscana, Italy), and I remember the constant smell of garlic through their pores, it was kind of annoying. My dad did most of the cooking in our household, but he was born here, not in Italy, so he cooked a variety of foods. I thank him for that, or some of my peers in grade school and high school would have been like, "ewww cheerful, you smell like garlic lol.:p

Speaking of my dad, he started an Italian bakery (before he passed away) that my mom still runs/owns, and some of what we sell is so good. Yummy.:)

Exactly.

As far as reality shows go, I must defend at least some of them. That's because I'm already psyched for Survivor tonight, and I love The Amazing Race. There's a big difference between reality shows like them and Keeping Up With the Kardashians.

This is such a non-KSUViolet response lol